Cultural Heritage and Emergent Urbanisms in India
Lecture Jyoti Hosagrahar
Wednesday, November 7th 2012
5.00 pm, Aula Gamma
Via Ampère 2,
Campus Leonardo
The lecture will be held in the frame of the internationalization program of
Politecnico di Milano and of the UNESCO Chair program launched in 2012 and based at the Mantua Campus.
Program
Introduction and chair:
Massimo Bricocoli
Ingrid Paoletti
Delegates of Politecnico di Milano for India.
Interventions
Alessandro Balducci
Pro-Rector
Federico Bucci
Pro Rector of the Mantua Campus
Rossella Salerno and Ilaria Valente
Coordinators of PhD Programs
Dr. Jyoti Hosagrahar is a professor at Columbia University, New York; Chair of the Ph.D. program at Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology, Bangalore, India; and Founder Director of Sustainable Urbanism International, an NGO in Bangalore, India, and a research unit at GSAPP, Columbia University. Architect, planner, and historian, she is engaged with planning, design, and policies on urban development, urban conservation and heritage management, and
sustainability issues. Since 2011, Hosagrahar has served as an expert member of the Indian Advisory Committee for World Heritage Matters under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
She serves as a technical expert for UNESCO on historic cities, culture and development, and urban sustainability. For 6 years she has been on the working group for development of the UNESCO Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscapes. She is also on the UNESCO Expert Group for Sustainable
Urban Futures and since 2010 has been involved with UNESCO’s efforts in Culture and Development.
Hosagrahar is the author of Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism (Architext Series, Routledge, 2005). She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Journal of Planning History and Buildings and Landscapes as well as on the board for the Society for American City and Regional Planning History.
She is currently working on a book manuscript, Designing Change and Continuity: Cultural Resilience and Sustainability in Urban South Asia.
massimo.bricocoli@polimi.it